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    • The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics 

      O'Brien, Eugene (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      This chapter examines Heaney’s translations of Antigone in terms of its being a vehicle for an ethical interrogation of the laws and loyalties and of the contrast between the loyalty to one’s tribe and a broader intersubjective ...
    • North: The Politics of Plurality 

      O'Brien, Eugene (Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 1999)
      This essay will offer a theoretical reading both of North, and its critics; it will also analyse the criticisms of North in terms of its speaking with the voice of the tribe. I hope to demonstrate that, in fact, what is ...
    • Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Translation 

      O'Brien, Eugene (Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2003)
      This essay deals with two of Heaney’s major translations, Sweeney Astray and The Cure at Troy, are connected in terms of their ability to enunciate the voice of the other as well as to convey increasingly more complex ...